Whisper - Share, Express, Meet Reviews

by Tylafer

So I had been using Whisper for several years. I really enjoyed it but it started to get very buggy. So having experience in wireless I start to do basic troubleshooting like uninstalling Whisper and reinstalling it. But I noticed that all my information and such as still on Whisper once I downloaded it again. So naturally I thought it has some cache I couldn't clear. Then I put in a request to completely delete my account and selected get rid of all my information thinking this would clear all cache and fix the bugs I continued to have after installing it again. What I wasn't aware of if you request to delete your account you can never use Whisper again. I uninstalled again and again but every time I turn Whisper on it says failure to connect so I reach out to customer service. They told me since my account was deleted I can never return. I explained the situation and they said that once an account is gone it can't return. I said fine let me set up a new account and they said that isn't allowed. So now this app will never work on my phone again and while they claim to have deleted my information they still somehow have my IMEI or something that makes it so they won't let me use Whisper . So they lied about clearing all my data. Which honestly is very sketchy. There is absolutely no reason they can't let me create a new account or recover my old one since they clearly still have my data.

by Hucsduibvd

I’ve used Whisper since I was 16. That was 4 years ago. It was a really nice app at first and I didn’t get as many sexual chats as I do now. If you post anything and you’re a girl, expect your inbox to explode with random horny guys who think you’ll put out. Not only that, they expect you to give them a picture of yourself and if you refuse or bring up the fact that Whisper is supposed to be anonymous, they won’t talk to you or cry that you’re probably a catfish.

Whisper has turned from a supportive app to a mixture of tinder, Ashley Madison, and just straight up trolling. There are countless people who post stuff just to get a rise out of people. Not to mention that if your views are slightly different from what society thinks is normal, you WILL get hated on.

I’ve met very few decent people on Whisper. Maybe among the thousands of chats I’ve probably had, about 3 or 4. Most of them just disappeared as well. I would only recommend Whisper if you are a. A troll b. A guy who wants to beg decent women who respect themselves for nudes c. A girl who’s actually into trading nudes with these desperate men or d. If you’re married and want an online affair. They might as well change it from this app to Moan because you really only meet people after sex or nudes.

by RandyC45

I was threatened by this app that if I did not watch what I was saying to people or watching what I post that they were going to ban me. I have never written a post any different than anyone else writing the same thing. I’ve answered post and been blocked because they want a picture and then I’m all of a sudden blocked because of my picture. Whatever those people use as a reason to block I have no idea. But i think it’s unfair that I’m being told my account will be shut down if I did whatever it is that they say I’m doing yet I have no idea what that is. So I’ve decided that if they do I will just inform the right people to really take a look at Whisper and just what is allowed to be posted. I’ve been on Whisper for 10+ years and never been threatened by this app staff before. So you all need to be careful because you will at some point be accused of something your not doing and if you don’t know what that is then they will take you down because how do you stop something you don’t know what your doing.

by Dakota Riley 1997

Good luck using Whisper if you use any iPhone that doesn’t have a physical home button. Just to exit a group you have to close Whisper and reopen it because the back button is stuck behind the clock. Every time I open Whisper , there is a 50/50 shot of my groups loading and sometimes I have to close and reopen Whisper multiple times to get the groups to load. Messages don’t always notify you, and chats them selves have bugs where the message you send might just move to a few messages above where it should be after you send them. I’d not recommend using Whisper at all. I would stop using it myself but I like talking to some people there, but if you are a new user, don’t even bother. Oh, did I mention the only useful updates in years are… there are none. Literally no bug fixes or improvements like the update notes claim while the developers added annoying full screen ads (a la Kik) on top of the banner that you can’t get rid off on the bottom of screen, even in chats where you DON’T WANT ADS! Seriously, if I wanted ads in my chats, Facebook would have added them to Messenger chats years ago. Oh, and it’s considered a dead platform since there really haven’t been feature updates in so long. Liters it’s just the community of users who support it still. If I could build a newer and better platform, I would. Literally anything could be better than Whisper at this point.

by Lampromama

So I have been using this app for a couple of years and Whisper can be wonderful and fun in a variety of different ways. However Whisper has become fake - things that appear on the popular page will pop right back up. It used to be days or weeks apart, but now it's only hours apart. Sometimes you'll see the exact same post twice, or with a slight difference, but the picture and everything else is the same.
Sadly, this used to be an anonymous posting app where you could share anything your heart desires, but it has now turned into the same regurgitated social media garbage like fb/ig/tmlbr/etc. Of course, if you express an opinion there is much bias in the this app team. I am not for Trump or Hillary but they have deleted countless posts of mine arguing against Hillary specifically, but I absolutely did not say or do anything wrong to break whispers community's standards.
this app has become trash and this used to be such a great app. I only hope one day someone will create another version of this app, an adult, uncensored, no politically correct, say whatever you want dreamland! Whisper is biased, made by biased people.

by Linguistix

Ads that appear in the "feed" are fine. Ads that pop up and make you sit there for a few scones before you can close it- also relatively fine. However, Whisper takes ads to a whole new level. Constantly, you are exited from Whisper involuntarily and Whisper Store opens up, prompting you to download a specific app. You have to constantly switch back to this app. It usually happens twice in a row, every time. However, it can become VERY annoying (the most frequent I have seen so far, was when it booted me out and sent me to Whisper Store, no less than a dozen time... Within a 60 second period! It was enough to make me force quit Whisper and not touch it for a few days. If you are reading this, Developers if this app- stop. Seriously.

Also, Whisper (despite staying up to date on the software and app versions) constantly crashes. You'll be in the middle of writing a message, have spent anywhere from a little bit, to a LOT of time writing out and message, and boom- you're now looking at the home screen because Whisper crashed again. Your message? Lost. Have to type it all out again. It's ridiculous.

by Mossing234

Whisper has numerous issues and when they fix them they tend to add new ones or I don’t know what they have running in the apps background but it can drain your battery inside of twenty minutes if your area is getting busy. If your area is slow or not updating it will still drain the battery in less than 40 minutes. I own an external battery and it normally lasts 8-12 hours with constant internet, app or streaming music. Whisper can chew through it in 3 and a half hours. I don’t recommend this as my phone gets so hot from this that it will shut off. If I try to turn it on it will show the battery with a red line and turn on to protect itself. I know they need to make money but I need a working phone too. Another problem you can run into is that it will push Whisper Store nothing will load so you close it and go back to Whisper which again pushes you to Whisper Store. The only way I have found to fix it is to stop using Whisper for a while and hope it doesn’t happen again.
I want to recommend Whisper but it either buggy to the point of being unusable or the newest problem of extreme battery drain. I have to say pass on Whisper for the moment which is sad.

by Personated Opinion

I used to use this app a few years ago and it was great. Whisper itself had a clean, simple layout and worked like a charm. I recently re-downloaded it and am disgusted with what it has turned into. The new layout is clunky and cluttered. Ads are everywhere (which I get they have to make money but most of the ads are just obtrusive to the content of Whisper itself) Ads are clearly not vetted for appropriate content. Many are for shady “software” downloads and sexual websites. The devs couldn’t even be bothered to fix the way ads intrude on the actual screen because every time you open a group the large banner ads at the bottom push the top of the screen to be cut off, making you unable to go back or swipe at the top unless you reset the page. There are almost no content filters for posts, with rampant hate speech being common. Posting itself is broken. You’re lucky if you can even successfully post, as the post button can become unresponsive or Whisper just crashes. Also there’s a huge amount of bot accounts that spam messages in your chat every time you manage to post. I don’t know if they ever plan to fix this, but don’t bother with Whisper until they do.

by MonotonousFox

Basically the title. I typically don’t care about all the bullying on a regular day, but today I’m feeling some type of way about it.
First it’s very easy to flag whispers and then the this app bot will just automatically delete it whether the this app was actually offensive or not.
It gets incredibly annoying to get a notification that someone has liked or replied to my reply or this app but bc someone didn’t like it and then flagged it too, I can’t see which this app it was or what the reply said.
And then there are the DMs. So many terrible DMs. Anyone can slip into someone’s DMs to converse or bully. And today someone (probably the same person who deleted all my replies bc I’m assuming they hurt his feelings even though I wasn’t talking or responding to him in the first place) decided to send a hate piece to me putting down all women and ending by telling me to choke on my father’s penis, probably giving me a low chat rating, and blocking me.
Very hateful, ya know? and I know that nothing is actually going to be done about it (I blocked him back) because nothing ever is. So I guess I’m wondering if I give this super low rating if something will actually be done about the sheer amount of bullying and hate on Whisper.

by Andi Mint

I had this app ever sense May of 2016, And I actually met a couple of friends near and dear to me now on Whisper back in 2016. However now as we are going into 2020 in a few days, it makes me so sad to see where Whisper has gone. It is completely filled by scammers looking for “sugar babies” and vile predators, who are mostly always men creeping on women, children, and even other men on Whisper . Whisper has SO much potential, and didn’t always used to be this bad. I think implementing some more boundaries and safety precautions on Whisper could help, like having users create accounts (still anonymous) and deactivating scam accounts, also make it so no pictures can be sent. Also what could help is if someone messages you first, they are not able to send another message unless the other person has responded. This could help stop or at least limit message spamming and unsolicited inappropriate remarks. Also again, I love the apps purpose and think it truly does have great potential, however it’s flaws can not be ignored much longer, or it will loose all of its users and no longer be a trust worthy app.

by Jackodude666

this app has lots of issues. It likes to randomly close and force users into other applications. It will have periods of time that it will not update posts and replies. Some days your chats will work and others you have to constantly resend the message to get it to go through. The filter for “Whispers” is very random in what it allows to post with logic that people still haven’t discovered. Then there is the rating system and how the staff and/or algorithms will block users from ever chatting privately again because they swerve blocked by other users. Instead of having a temporary ban, it’s permanent. A user will need a new device with which to use Whisper on to have conversations but if they had ongoing conversations from their old device, those are forever lost. Anyone can block for a multitude of reasons at any point after both sides have sent one message so there does not seem to be any balance so that if users were trying to communicate and then the other person did not want to and blocked them, they can continue on. Reporting of your or others’ “Whispers” for a variety of reasons may also have an effect on this block in chat but I have not found anything from the this app team on this.
Overall, Whisper needs help. Don’t expect to use it long term for conversations.

by Lmjhcbcd

I’ve been an on and off user of Whisper for over a year. The people on Whisper are terrible. If you’re a woman or girl using Whisper, expect to be constantly sexually harassed by desperate men wanting to hook up and get nudes. If you’re an orientation other than heterosexual, expect to be constantly bullied and see a slew of homophobic posts. 99% of posts consist of sex, trolling, drugs, and begging for money, food, attention, etc. While I am someone who has quite a thick skin when it comes to negative comments, and bullying, the amount of hateful, spiteful behavior from people on Whisper is enough to send the strongest person over the edge. There is absolutely no moderation when it comes to hate speech, sexual harassment, or comments such as “go kill yourself”. I found that every time I would go on Whisper, I would become angry, and it affected my attitude throughout the day. There are real predators on Whisper who go after under age girls. Whisper should NOT be available to children under 18. There are under age girls who make posts about selling nude photos. The people on Whisper make me sick, and this is not a form of social media that I would consider safe or healthy for anyone to use. Whisper is not used as it’s intended anymore, and the developers do not care about the users experience. If you want a good anonymous app to use, I suggest Reddit. this app is literal trash.

by I Just Want This Posted

a friend of mine recommended Whisper to me and it’s been great and all — minus all the incredibly narrow minded people on it and the men all older than 25 who really only use Whisper to send pictures of their body to other people. it’s a great way to spread peoples’ thoughts but without an identity. i think it’s a great idea, but really it’s not being used in the way it should. also, it’s absolutely 100% frustrating to just randomly every 10 seconds or so i’m on Whisper to just be pushed out of Whisper and onto Whisper Store for some piece of crap app i don’t want to be on my screen. i think that is something that needs to be fixed very quickly, because it’s easily the worst part of Whisper. when i’m on this app, i’d like to be reading peoples’ opinions and what they want to say to me — not to every 10 seconds be forced out of Whisper onto another app that was never given permission by me to be opened. and then I close Whisper and go back on to this app for it to happen right after. then again i repeat myself and am left alone for 10 seconds before it happens again. stop doing that. it’s very annoying. i can handle the disturbing ads about “finding people” with suggestive pictures but i can’t handle being pushed out of Whisper 50 times before i am done on Whisper . lately it’s been getting a lot worse and i would like to see something change or i’m going to be removing Whisper soon.

by Concerned Whisper

Whisper is great and all and the purpose is really good for an app like this, but the only problem is that I have to delete and re install Whisper at least 4 times a day to receive any type of notifications, whether it be for chats, replies, likes on my post, anything...and when I do re install Whisper all my chats are gone, so whatever I was talking about with that person it's completely gone and no way to get it back...and another reason I have to delete it is cause whenever I post something it doesn't post, it shows for like 2 seconds then it's gone, when I go to "my post" it shows it posted but when I go and look at "nearby" it doesn't show up there like I never posted it...so o don't get any interaction for it at all...it's ridiculous that I have to delete an app so many times a day and still have it not work for me...the thing I'm most upset about is the fact that my chats are gone and I don't get notified when someone replies back to me in my private chat, so it's like if they did reply back and I delete Whisper once again to get it working I have no clue what they have said or they think I'm
Ignoring them when I actually haven't, it's just this stupid app didn't give me a notification, and it deleted my conversation with them...so please look into this cause it's frustrating when you have such a good app but whatever this bug is, is making it very crappy very quickly..thank you

by Cardinalmockingjay

I liked being able to post about accepting and loving trans people for who they are.. i am a transsexual woman as well.. i was banned from chatting i think on Tuesday for some reason never explained to me on any level. My chat rating is very low because the majority of chats are comprised of men spamming me demanding nudes and when they don’t get what they want they rate me one star and block me each time without fail. As a solution i started ignoring all profiles labeled as male and other but Whisper will many times glitch out and say they are female instead, possibly to give these men a chance at being acknowledged at all. Someone was asking for all my social media and contact info so i asked them to take a selfie doing a nonsexual pose i request or id block them just so id know theyre even who they claim to be and maybe that was it? I met four people on there i can call genuine friends, including my current trans male boyfriend, but i now lost any chance for further connections with others using Whisper. Can somebody reinstate my account? Ironically there’s many people who regularly post transphobia/abuse on the transgender support page but they were never once banned and it’s consistently the same people every time for years now. There’s no rational reason i should have been banned.
Edit: i can’t post, message or reply to anything actually. I’m deleting Whisper as it serves no purpose now

by Readmyjournal

The original concept of Whisper was in its own way a great idea and a great way to talk to someone, but I constantly find myself dealing with the ad pop-ups that will open my App Store 4 times, back to back. It’s annoying and I have to kill Whisper and restart my phone because my messages don’t always appear when it notifies me of a message and it fails to fetch updates. Also, it always shows other users’ location as ‘Somewhere’ or some of the information of the user’s profile doesn’t show up. Last but not least, it freezes up constant, especially when searching for a specific chat in your inbox. Whisper was great until they included ads and decided that you can’t just delete Whisper without contacting them first. I last requested them to delete my account and they responded days later saying that if I did, I wouldn’t be able to create another account on my device. So I asked for all content to be removed...a month and a half later, they emailed me saying it had been cleared with further instructions. I lost a lot of conversations that began after the request was submitted. Whisper is great for anonymity, but it isn’t as efficient and the ads need to be removed.

by Patricko1999

Whisper is fun, you can find like minded people in the groups no matter what you're into! You can send pictures, you can post anonymous opinions or you can start a conversation or play "truth or dare" with a stranger! Whatever! No matter how niche of an interest you have, chances are that someone out there agrees!

However, there are a few flaws. One being that you cannot make a post and post it to several groups who you have joined and who might be interested in what you have to say. Also, if you make a post, it is automatically posted to the "nearby" page. This is problematic because you may be trying to confess something embarrassing to a group you are in but then you end up telling everyone within a 15 mile radius who has Whisper too! Not good! Also, sometimes your posts will disappear from a group or you won't be able to see your own post on the nearby page or the page for your group but everyone else can see it. This is problematic because Whisper also will filter out certain posts based on language or because someone reported you but Whisper doesn't tell you that the post is gone. You just think that it's still there but you can't see it like some of your other posts that disappeared!

by Diana.Pali

Firstly, Whisper is meant to be anonymous but people ALWAYS ask you for personal information such as age, location, gender and even PHOTOS. This is unacceptable. I understand if you have been chatting for a while it may come up, however complete strangers should not be all up in your business like that. I suggest removing the option to send/ receive photos/ share gender/ age/ location, unless both parties agree to it. This will also prevent unsolicited d-pictures, which unfortunately happens, another downside. Next point, Whisper is INFESTED with trolls, and people who cannot behave decently. The algorithm for which posts get onto the home page is also not ideal, the most obviously controversial and troll posts get onto it while other useful or interesting posts, do not. Last point, the option to create our own account to log into should be available as opposed to being linked to our Apple AppStore account on our device. Some other fixes such as removing permanent chatting bans, allowing the option to filter through chats, and view whispers in specific areas in the same way as you would in your own area when location is on.
Please take these things into consideration.

by Shsndnskebdmskdkenxnandbs

I have been using the this app for about a year now. I enjoy speaking my mind anonymously. The concept for Whisper is great. Unfortunately, there is a number of issues that I have ran into that hinder the experiences.
The biggest thing is the number of guys that are flooding Whisper looking for girls to send explicit pictures. As a man, I do not get many of these guys messaging me. I have heard from many women who use this app that it is a serious problem. It really isn’t the company’s fault but there should definitely be some banning going on.
I have experienced some minor bugs and crashes during my use of this app. Recently, the scrolling has been super slow and the ads get in the way. Often times Whisper crashes just seconds after opening.
Overall, this is a great app but it has its flaws. If you’re a parent, please keep Whisper out of your kids hands. There are some seriously messed up people on Whisper who will prey on children.

by DB_Changer007

I enjoy Whisper , and have been a frequent user of it for the past few years. Looking back, it seems as if a good portion of the connections, and friends I made originated from Whisper. I love it because it’s open, raw, and vulnerable. I’ve been able to find purpose in helping, or trying to help, other users with issues or concerns they may or may not be going through. Not to say I’m a licensed therapist, but any help is better than no help. To be trapped with no way out, seems impossible. I do think it has almost everything I’d be interested in, except perhaps better advertising (more users), because I have noticed a trend of the same users per location over the course of time. I associate Whisper very quickly and easily with “if I’m depressed, want conversation, basically anything.. I at least have a quick or instant friend or distraction, to get me through any troubling period.

I think, perhaps, maybe trying to get therapists on board, to promote it with their clients for anyone “socially awkward” might help. I noticed the new apps, I’ll look into them, but thanks for doing what you do. 👍

by Sneaky Hudini

Everything I try to post gets taken down seconds after putting it up. It doesn't matter what it is, or what it's about. It could be something bad, it could be something good, but no matter what, the moderators feel the need to censor me. I can't receive messages, I can't have my whispers rated, I can't receive replies because literally everything I post gets censored. It's really sad to go on Whisper and see blatant racism, and sexism left and right, all over Whisper. Trolls galore, as if I had just stumbled upon a valley full of endless bridges with people talking about how terrible white people are, how terrible black people are, how terrible men are, and how terrible women are and yet I can't write a single post without it getting deleted. I have literally tested it over and over again. I post, then ten seconds later it disappears. I have tried writing paragraphs, I have tried writing one word sentences. It does not matter, it gets deleted. It's much like Facebook, or twitter, in that the moderators love taking away your freedom of speech. I considered for a while, creating a new account in hopes that maybe it's because mine went on the screening list for some stupid reason, but I decided it wasn't worth it. They can keep their echo tunnel. They can keep their stupid app. :)

by Unbothered.

Everything about Whisper is toxic. A bunch of annoying women begging for money by selling themselves on Whisper. Whisper is basically a modernized backpage app version of Craigslist’s prostitutes and predators. How is Whisper still up? Whisper already has so many news articles and reports on sexual freaks and perverts like it’s honestly ridiculous. I don’t care about the little groups on Whisper filled with people who just wants to feel sorry for themselves. If anything being anonymous is clearly making people feel way to comfortable and showing people’s true colors within Whisper. I’ve never seen so many trashy females on an app ever in my life. The guys on Whisper are just psychopaths desperately seeking affection through Whisper. Honestly it’s nothing but sexual desperate freaks. No matter what you say or do you will be judged and it’s very rare to receive a compliment within Whisper. If anything being called racist slangs such as the N word or whatever is considered a compliment on an app like this. Don’t download Whisper if you’re a normal person just looking to vent out their feelings or issues in life. Do download if you are a sociopathic perverted crackhead desperately seeking sex and drama.